The City of Sanibel has upgraded its website MySanibel.com. The new site is cleaner and much more user friendly. It's also more compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Check out the site HERE.

Republican candidate for Lee County Board John Albion was on Beach Talk Radio this past Saturday. We asked him about Governor DeSantis' appointment of Mike Greenwell to the Lee County Board with just weeks to go before the primary. Watch his answer HERE. You can also watch the entire show from Saturday HERE.

The next Sanibel/Captiva Chamber business luncheon is Wednesday, August 10th from 11:30 to 1:30 at Captiva Island Yacht Club. The guest speaker will be Lee County Parks & Rec Director Jesse Lavender who will give an update on the upcoming enhancement projects that will follow erosion-control improvements on the Sanibel Causeway.

TPI Hospitality recently announced the hiring of David Cesario as the new Vice President and Opening General Manager of the Margaritaville resort on Fort Myers Beach. David will be our guest tomorrow morning, August 6th at 9:45.

The fight over a proposed dune walkover around the edge of the Critical Wildlife Area on the south end of Fort Myers Beach continues. In one corner is homeowner Eddie Rood, who wants the walkover. In the other corner is the town council, which is putting up a fight to make sure that doesn't happen.

We are on a mission to go over 5,000 subscribers on our YouTube page. One of our early Saturday morning pre-show videos is always exclusively on our YouTube page. To get your notification we are live subscribe HERE.

Nearly 100 impaired boat operators were removed from Florida waterways during Operation Dry Water between July 2nd and 4th. 93 boat operators were arrested for boating under the influence.

Turtle Time reports that as of the end of this week, there are now 107 nests on Fort Myers Beach (up from 106 last week). There have also been 154 false crawls on Fort Myers Beach, up from 148 last week. Here's how Fort Myers Beach stacks up against the other beaches.

Exactly 193 fewer than there were in 2019, the last off-Presidential election year on Fort Myers Beach. And back in 2019 only about 36% of the registered 4,879 Fort Myers Beach voters actually went to the polls.

It's going to be a very exciting and action-packed year of local elections. The deadline to register to vote or change your party affiliation for the Primary Election is this Monday. Eligible individuals must be registered 29 days before an election to be eligible to vote in that election.

The state task force on blue-green algae will hold its next meeting on August 4th at 9:30AM. The task force was created by Governor DeSantis shortly after being sworn into office in 2019.

A celebration of life will be held at Pete's Time Out Monday for Cheyenne Mazza, a former Pete's Time Out employee, and young daughter of Pete's Time Out employee Hope Hess. Cheyenne died unexpectedly at the age of 21 on July 9th.